Hannity: "Worst Excuse" For A Journalist

Sean Hannity cut an interview short with Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison on Tuesday night after an onscreen exchange so tense it could have been cut with a knife.

The conservative talk show host had invited Ellison on to discuss the upcoming sequester and President Obama's decision to travel around the country to give various speeches regarding his plans. After calling Obama "President Panic", Hannity asked Ellison about his opinion on whether he thought Obama was spreading needless fear among Americans, and Ellison immediately made it known that he had no patience for the host's reporting style. Though he smiled politely when the cameras were trained on him, he quickly got to the core of his issues with the host.

“Quite frankly, you are the worst excuse for a journalist I’ve ever seen. It’s absurd that you — the worst. What you just displayed was not journalism, it was yellow journalism. It wasn't anything close to trying to tell the American people what's really going on and it's just shocking...every journalistic ethic I have ever heard of was just violated by you,” Ellison said.

The longer the exchange went on, the angrier Ellison became; he and Hannity were obviously never going to find their way out of an impasse, so Hannity cut the interview short.